Events

There are a lot of things going to happen next month! Here is the list with what’s going to happen (that we’ll get involved here in Europe), what’s coming and this and that. I’ve been thinking of making a calendar for a while now, I might implement this soon!

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SEPTEMBER 2 – CHAMPION JOCKEY RELEASES
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Champion Jockey will be released across Europe this date on PlayStation 3 (Move compatible), Xbox 360 (Kinect compatible) and Nintendo Wii. For more information about this, please check the community page @ facebook.com/championjockey on Facebook.

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SEPTEMBER 6-7 – DW GUNDAM 3 DLC “ARIOS GUNDAM PACK”
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Unlocks Arios Gundam and its pilot Allelujah Haptism as a playable character. Coming on Xbox Live Marketplace on September 6th (480MSP) and PlayStation Network (Europe) on September 7th (€3.99). More info and screens, please head to the community page @ facebook.com/koeigames on Facebook.

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September 13-14 – DW GUNDAM 3 DLC “SERAVEE GUNDAM PACK”
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The final pack of Dynasty Warriors: Gundam DLC. Unlocks Seravee Gundam and its pilot Tieria Erde as a playable character. Coming on Xbox Live Marketplace on September 13th (480MSP) and PlayStation Network (Europe) on September 14th (€3.99). More info and screens, please head to the community page @ facebook.com/koeigames on Facebook.

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SEPTEMBER 15-18 – TOKYO GAME SHOW 2011
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It’s not finalized but it seems like I “might” have a chance to visit Japan this time. If this is happening, I’ll be taking a lot of footage for you. There’ll be some announcement during the show for sure, be sure to check my tweet on @tecmokoeieurope and @inspchin too.

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It’s not about more DLC info or Dynasty Warriors 7: Xtreme Legends here today (that would be in the next article as I’ve got pretty much everything confirmed) so give me few more weeks. I’d like to share my thoughts about TKE Insider project that has been launched a year ago. Thank you for over 50K views with just few videos I’ve made. I started this project with the vision not showing you the exclusive trailer or pretty gameplay of video games, but more to the merchandise and the activities we’ve done with our audience “closer to the life”, so by hitting over 50K views with just my face with our audience and merchandise, it’s an achievement.

I’ve made a quick little video just want to tell you that do not be afraid to showcase your work to the Internet. We know there’s always people criticizing about your work, just take it and improve it to the best you can because this is how you learn things. I think it’s always important to show your work to the public these days so you know if it’s on the right track, its acceptance level, its strength and weakness, then think of the way to improve it.

So here, let’s start with the mini story board of TKE Insider series.

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Fist of the North Star: Ken’s Rage Goodies
(16,970 views ongoing from April 2010)
– This is how the project started because I would love people to see the alarm clock mainly as to see it move and to hear it is better than just an image. As you can see, this was my very first time putting my face to the public so a little bit uneasy there.

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Dead or Alive Paradise Goodies
(6,477 views ongoing from April 2010)
– Many people are confused about this video of why the camera man was beaten. This was all happened on Facebook so it might be a bit confusing when it’s on YouTube. This is actually a retake and I actually did this Dead or Alive Paradise Goodies along with the first Fist of the North Star: Ken’s Rage Goodies one, but the camera man didn’t focus on each product but just zooming on Kasumi’s tits so in the end, the video didn’t show all the goodies but the tits in the zoom.

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Samurai Warriors 3 Goodies
(3,196 views ongoing from April 2010)
– As you can see April was a busy month, you got very motivated every time when you started a new project, that’s typical me. Samurai Warriors 3 isn’t published by us here in overseas but I had a little risk showing you some merchadise we had from Japan in the past. Also, it’s the first time showcasing my friend’s art in the video.

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Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 Goodies
(3,804 views ongoing from April 2010)
– Looking back at this video, I realized how stupid I was! But then, it’s one epic production. Since I had the Sanji (from Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2) cosplay costume and @julialaurant had her Momiji DLC costume, I’ve invited her as a guest to some little sketch with me before showing you the goodies and also the artworks that we’ve received from the fans on Facebook.

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TECMO KOEI Goods @ Tokyo Game Show 2010
(1,098 views ongoing from September 2010)
– A very long rest in between with no new videos. I’ve been sent to Japan for Tokyo Game Show 2010 so I did a little video at TECMO KOEI store there. I was quite surprised on how less items they had there as I know we produced a lot of goodies but they didn’t show much during the show. It’s my first time in Japan and it’s also my first video from Japan. I miss this!

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Quantum Theory Goodies
(558 views ongoing from October 2010)
– You just gotta laugh on why was I producing this! It’s my very last video with my camera man, @TheMoop before he left TECMO KOEI.

*** That was for the first 6 months of the project. I ended it there (for the goodies wise) and I restarted it with some new from the office to the expo. You can pretty much spot the difference that I’m more comfortable in front of the camera now, more relaxed with a little humor too. ***

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Fist of the North Star: Ken’s Rage Clock Contest
(2,367 views ongoing from November 2010)
– It’s the first video contest activities we’ve done with the fans in London MCM Expo. It’s the first time and it’s fun! Thanks to the contestants who were brave to showcase their awesome ATATATATATATATA in front of the camera.

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10th Anniversary Special: Dynasty Warriors Is My Life!
(6,749 views ongoing from November 2010)
– The idea was come from @Lead_wotawaster because during the London MCM Expo, there was a kid coming to our store and shouted “Dynasty Warriors is my life!” so in order to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Dynasty Warriors and the launch of Dynasty Warriors 7, we made this during our Memorabilia show in Birmingham. As you can see @Lead_wotawaster was doing some of his ATATATATATA voice in the video, it’s showing that this is the sequel of what’s in the previous episode. I think no many people could get it, haha!

*** This project has gone on and off because there’s nothing to produce when we have nothing to show or no events to attend. Here comes the 2011! ***

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First Time Playing Dynasty Warriors Music
(1,705 views ongoing from February 2011)
– I’ve got my iPhone from TKE! So in order to celebrate that, I’ve played the main theme from Dynasty Warriors 7 for the very first time to everyone. It all started because my colleagues in TKE sang the main theme with their own lyrics every day before the game was out to raise the morale so it obviously worked and this is why this video was made.

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Trinity: Souls of Zill O’ll Goodies
(1,480 views ongoing from February 2011)
– In order to keep the channel’s main purpose, it has to go back to the basic. Yes, I had Trinity: Souls of Zill O’ll goodies with me during Midlands MCM Expo 2011. So I did a little video showcasing it in the old style, it made feel like April 2010 again from watching this. But this time, thanks to @Gischie for being my camera lady.

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Champion Jockey in Action!
(2,954 views ongoing from June 2011)
– Every expo has its highlight for us. For the London MCM Expo in May 2011, it was Champion Jockey. So this is the footage we recorded to show people the different techniques they used to play this horse racing game.

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Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 3 @ Japan Expo 2011
(2,543 views ongoing from July 2011)
– I’ve been sent to Japan Expo in Paris to join the producer’s signing session due to the launch of Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 3, so this video was made! It’s the latest one and now TKE Insider has hit over 50K in total!

*** What’s next? If I get to send to Japan for Tokyo Game Show 2011 then the next video would be me in Japan, or else it would be either from Eurogamer Expo or London MCM Expo. Can’t wait to share more of my TECMO KOEI journey with you! ***

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Closing Comment: I see myself grow from each production, although there’s no exact direction for this project. But as the Internet behavior changes very quickly every day, as long as we can react quick and see what it fits and what people would like to see, produce and make it happen, I think we should be happy and proud enough for it. So, thank you again and I’ll see you soon!

Today I applied 5 main keywords to my community to remind and give myself a practice how to handle it. I had a think I came out with 5 relevant words, which are:

Listen – To listen to you, your voice (not necessary of implementing it 100%) but know the exact situation from you, so your voice is always important in our community. I absorb it as much as I can.

Respond – To give you response if necessary. Although I have been asked a hundred times about some of the games not getting “localized”, I’ve responded with the best I can but sadly some users they don’t have the value of listening to the situation.

Involve – To get involved into the community 24/7, join the discussion and share the opinion and make sure the community has the same message that has been given in and out.

Discover – To explore and understand the feelings from both users (“we want this”) and the company (“we can’t do this”) and to build the bridge to connect both parties.

Execute – To give a green light if the idea and plan is good, acceptable and giving the advantage to the community. For example, our #TKfamily hash tag by @NotMarki.

As a community person myself, I don’t like to use the word “fans” to the audience because the social network is all about the connection, friends and family. That’s why I don’t use “fans” word much (except I used it once on my previous Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 3 @ Japan Expo video and I didn’t feel good after using that word). I also hope to be everyone’s friend rather than that community “manager” myself because I think the “manager” word doesn’t need to be over-used on me as in social network community, everyone is equally appreciated, with freedom of speech, so there’s no first class or economy class on what you can or can’t express from yourself. Honesty.

Recently, I’ve been featured on MCV talking about “Care In The Community” – Here are some scans from the quotes I’ve made.

I think the most important thing is to “humanize” the network, because if you’re talking and acting like a bot these days, it’s not going to help, like people said, bots are everywhere, and it’s hard to “trust” them with those links they provided. I think the whole social network experience has changed our Internet behavior too.

Thanks to my boss @Lead_wotawaster for seeing the light and digging it out from me, having faith in me and providing me the wings to fly. I think from a computer nerd (myself) that never talked to many people few years ago, I’ve actually learned and gained a lot in these 3 years after I joined the company officially.

How Did You Get Into TECMO KOEI!?
I wrote an article for KOEI Warriors due to the 6th anniversary. I hope you have time reading this article as it’s the 6 years journey of KOEI Warriors to see how it’s been through.

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Closing Comment: So what’s the next plan for the community? No one knows as things are changing very quickly these days, it all depends how genuine your move is – if you’re smart enough, you can react and implement it quick, you get it! I hope there are more adventures coming to me so I’m able to explore, learn and apply them into the community and my life. I think this is the end of my glory and now I’m started to struggle thinking of what’s the next best thing I could do for the community and myself too. You see, it’s Friday night and my brain still hasn’t stopped yet.

Oh, and this Sunday (July 10, 2011), I’ll be at London Film and Comic Con (LFCC) to be one of judges for the cosplay masquerade and skit. Since it’s the masquerade and skit, the main thing I’d judge is the performance and the interaction between you and the audience, so my advice would be to be brave taking your mask off and transform into what you’re wearing to impress your audience, then you’re already the winner! I’ll be sure to tweet something with my @inspchin account with the updates.

I’m back from the Japan Expo 12 in Paris. As usual, my routine is to write you a report and tell you how it went. This time I made the video to show you everything, from the booth, to the signing session, with some of my comments so I hope you prefer the moving things than reading the text. Here you go!

The event went really well, Goto-san didn’t even have a second rest during the signing and he’s trying his best to get everything signed for everyone. Here’s some of the pictures I took and I’ve also met SUDA51 and Akira Yamaoka at the backstage. Seriously, thank you all for making this the most successful signing session yet. I know I have to be honest about this, but I’m happy when seeing our signing booth was so packed compared to the others. You guys rule!

And now, here comes the DLC for Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 3, which you will know it here before the official site updated. The DLC starts on July 19 on Xbox Live and PSN US, and July 20 for PSN EU. Everything that lists here will be based on EU schedule with Euros pricing.

Closing Comment: I was about to blog Dynasty Warriors 7 DLC Pack 3 as well which is coming on July 26/27, 2011 but I’ll save it for later. The reason is because I prefer to show you some screenshots on what those costumes look like while blogging and those assets are still embargoed so I can’t share it yet, but expect a sexy Sun Ce. Any question regarding anything or any other thing, feel free to tweet to my personal account @tecmokoeieurope on Twitter or drop the comments here. I’ll try my best to give response to everyone so have no fear to talk to me.

Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 3 is available in stores in US now (for both PS3 and Xbox 360), and it’s released in Europe this Friday. I’ve finished the site (with non flash) which you can visit it here @ bit.ly/dwg3site – it’s the first TK game sites I made with no flash so I was a bit nervous of not getting accepted but it seems people like and and pleased about it (mainly because it loads really quick) so thanks so much again!

Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 3 has the Japanese voice option which I’ve already blogged about this last time. The DLC starts from July 19 (for PSN US, XBL US & EU) and July 21 (for PSN EU) – exact content TBA so make sure to keep your eyes on the site. The DLC is not available in these regions: Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, New Zealand, India, Chile and Colombia.

Okay, before your mood starts to get angry, read this. Look at the right picture there, I’m saving some of that for you guys, so when I come back from Paris, I’ll do some giveaways on @tecmokoeieurope! I’m going to Japan Expo in Paris with the producer of Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 3, Yoshitaka Goto (Namco Bandai side) – some of you questioned me about Hisashi Koinuma (the producer from Tecmo Koei side) – he’s not coming this time, but we have Goto-san here which is still awesome. On Friday (July 1), Goto-san will be at the Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 3 playable booth at 11:30am-12:00pm, so if you want to have a photo with him and his autograph, come at this time. The signing session will be held (check here) at 1:15-2:15pm and the first 25 entries will get a PS3 copy of the game from the producer. On Saturday (July 2), Goto-san will be at the booth at 11am-12pm, so come and talk to us. Another signing session will be held (check here) at 2-3pm, and again, first 25 entries get the PS3 copies of the game from the producer himself. He’s a generous guy! Please follow @tecmokoeieurope and myself @inspchin with the event updates!

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Closing Comment:

I’ve been receiving a lot of “F*ck you KOEI!” messages recently regarding to the Dynasty Warriors 7 not coming to the PSP, as well as some of the Warriors titles not coming to overseas. Also there’s an announcement about Dynasty Warriors 7: Xtreme Legends on Famitsu in Japan. I’ll confirm with you if you can make THIS happen. I know I’m a b*tch in this case but I’d love to track on how many loyal warriors we’ve got there!

Sorry for leaving you guys for a while. Today I’m going to get some time to blog. First of all, to Dynasty Warriors 7 fans in EU, regarding the double pricing on the DLC, finally we have fixed it. We apologized and at the same time, thank you for contacting me regarding this matter. The 3rd batch supposed to come this end of month but due to the PlayStation Store isn’t back yet in Japan, we have to re-schedule everything again so this will be delayed a little bit. I can tell you the next few batches of the DLC contents are quite cool, more original costumes, weapons and stages (but no Pang De, sorry!) – as there’s no character DLC.

There were a lot of things happened last week, we had so many free DLC giveaway on our Twitter and Facebook. We have also done the #GAMEFTW 2 days ago with @gamedigital by answering all the questions from the our #TKfamily from Twitter with many free giveaways too. If you’ve missed this, boo, but no worries as we have more social network activities coming soon, just make sure you “Like” us on Facebook here and follow us @tecmokoeieurope on Twitter. Other than that, I’ve finished all the biography of MS (mobile suits) and ace pilots from Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 3 for you (click the links that highlighted), also I’ve started to scratch the site now (it’s very last minute) – this time it’s non-flash but HTML so it’s accessible on your mobiles and smartphones as well.

We had a great E3, I wasn’t there but our Ninja Gaiden 3 has been awarded by many many media. Check the list here. If you haven’t seen the trailer here, I’ve attached it here for you. Ninja Gaiden 3 is coming to PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 early 2012. Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor’s Edge is coming on Wii U, release date TBA.

I’ve also started the Champion Jockey page on Facebook, it’s still brand new and I can’t wait to see it grow. Talking about the Champion Jockey, have you seen this TKE Insider’s Champion Jockey video yet? If not, check it out.

This is not a very informative article but it gives you sort of details on what I’ve been working on recently. Oh yeah, I’ll be attending to Japan Expo 12 on 1-2 July 2011 in Paris. Can’t wait to let you know what I’m going to do there, can’t wait to see the #TKfamily in France and can’t wait to get more followers for @tecmokoeieurope and @inspchin! God, why are you not loving expos when you have this kind of thing happened?

No reason not to love these people. Chin with Chin, that is a lot of Chins!

I’m your friends more than just a community manager for TECMO KOEI. While I’m in charge for this community, I don’t really see our audience as just the fans but my friends, I don’t see this community as a community but a family. This is also the reason why I’ve connected everyone with my real life and shared my experience and everything to the friends, and vice versa. Today, I’m not going to talk about myself here, but I have some Dynasty Warriors life recipe to share. I know most people love Dynasty Warriors, mainly because of the Three Kingdoms, the music (damn those awesome instrument works), the easy hack-n-slash game system even those bishies (pretty boys) – but today, I’m going to share something that I’ve learned from 2 people about the 7th installment of Dynasty Warriors (yes, that’s Dynasty Warriors 7), they’re Nina (from USA) and Alex (from Croatia), they have honestly told me about something that I didn’t notice before.

Nina told me one of the reason that got her hooked into Dynasty Warriors 7 is the town bit of the game, which you could walk around, talk to the soldiers and the soldiers / unknown generals shared his life story. For example, when you met the soldier in first chapter of the story, he just joined into the force and didn’t know what to do, then in few chapters later, he’s telling you he’s getting married, then after few more chapters, he’s telling you about his family. She thinks it’s really good to have the town part in Dynasty Warriors 7 so you’re not just running around, hacking and slashing all the way through.

I’ve also met Alex, he’s a big fan of Dynasty Warriors and he told me one of the reason he thinks Dynasty Warriors 7 is good is because of the cinematic story. He started to play Dynasty Warriors series long time ago, and because he already “made friends” and has some sort of virtual “relationship” with the Dynasty Warriors characters for a long time, by playing through the storyline and watching the “friends” died in the cut scenes (emotional) and couldn’t use them in the next level in Story Mode (more realistic) made him really sad. He was so excited about Dynasty Warriors 7 before it’s coming out and he really enjoyed the game too.

I think those are the main 2 new elements in Dynasty Warriors 7 that made people really happy (although some are still complaining about the Free Mode – I’ve already raised this to the team for your information) – but yeah, it’s really good to hear the feedback from you guys – no matter it’s good or bad, all are welcome. And now, it’s something related to E3 but still sticking to the Dynasty Warriors franchise.

Dynasty Warriors (working title) has been announced for PlayStation Vita in E3 2011 yesterday – any idea or suggestion on what name you would recommend? This version of Dynasty Warriors will allow you to use the PS Vita’s touch pad and sensor for intuitive controls and also allow you to connect together and enjoy an epic experience, and it allows up to 4 players co-op multi-player (online) – I think this is something new from us. Check out the trailers and the gameplay videos (the game is still in development) and I hope you think it’s something good. I personally can’t wait to see more from the team – this is developed by the “Strikeforce” team (if you could still remember) and I have a faith in them, I hope it could turn out to be something good!

Closing Comment: It looks fun but I personally don’t think those 2 new elements that my friends love would get into it, but we’ll see how this PlayStation Vita of Dynasty Warriors would turn out to be like. For E3 2011, our official site is bit.ly/tke32011 – if you have a Twitter account, just hash tag #tecmokoei and #e3 to get listed on the site. Any questions, feel free to ask or tweet @inspchin on Twitter as always.